A onetime medical student who was facing charges including first-degree murder in a killing tied to the Craigslist website died Sunday of an apparent suicide, police said.
Philip Markoff was found unresponsive in his Boston, Massachusetts, jail cell at 10:17 a.m. Sunday and pronounced dead by medics, according to officials.
The cause of death is under investigation, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in a statement.
Zsa Zsa Gabor asked her husband to call a priest to her hospital bedside "to read her the last rites" Sunday, according to her publicist.
Gabor, 93, is "in very serious condition" at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to her husband, Prince Frederic Von Anhalt.
"It's a sad time for them right now," spokesman John Blanchette said Sunday.
[Updated at 4:40 p.m.] Authorities have dropped charges against a 25-year-old man arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of four people outside a restaurant in downtown Buffalo, New York, police said.
Keith Johnson remains in jail on unrelated parole violations, Buffalo police spokesman Mike DeGeorge said.
The shooting Saturday also injured four others outside the City Grill in downtown Buffalo.
Earlier, Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita told CNN affiliate WGRZ-TV that photographic evidence collected by Buffalo police late Saturday night had led them to believe the wrong person might have been in custody.
[Updated at 4:33 p.m.] The death toll from an off-road race car plowing into a crowd in southern California on Saturday night has risen to eight, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday.
[Posted at 2:26 a.m.] Six people were killed when an off-road race car plowed into a crowd in southern California on Saturday night, authorities said.
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